Lecture

WISE is pleased to announce a WISE Public Lecture with Jonathan Buonocore. Please join us in person or on Zoom for a discussion on the health co-benefits of renewable energy and climate policy. As the buildout of renewable energy has progressed, health co-benefits assessments have been conducted alongside evaluations of the health benefits resulting from changes in electricity generation. To meet our goal of keeping climate change below 2°C, current strategies under debate include electrifying other uses of fossil fuels—such as transportation and building heating and cooling—while expanding renewable energy to meet this increased electricity demand. This talk will explore recent applications of co-benefits assessments in the electrical grid and climate policy, how these methods are now being extended to buildings and transportation, and why health considerations should be more deeply integrated into energy policy.

WISE is pleased to announce a hybrid WISE Public Lecture with Dr. Osvaldo Arenas. Please join us in person or on Zoom for a discussion about the global context for sustainable aviation, the NRC Aerospace Low Emission Aviation Program, and the technological challenges, research, and projects on electrified propulsion at NRC and Canada.

🚀 Launch Your AI Career at the Waterloo.AI Job Fair – Spring 2025!

Are you a 3rd or 4th-year undergrad, Master’s, PhD, or Postdoc student at the
University of Waterloo with a focus in AI or Data Science?

Don’t miss this exclusive in-person hiring and networking event connecting
top employers with emerging AI talent.

🗓 Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
📍 Location: Davis Centre (DC), University of Waterloo
🎟 Admission: FREE – Register by Friday, May 16 at 12:00 PM

Meet hiring managers actively recruiting for AI/DS roles, explore one-on-one
interview opportunities, and learn about open positions, current projects,
and research-to-industry pipelines. Hear from industry leaders during our AI
Panel and connect during the post-event networking reception.

See event page for more details and to registration!

https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/waterlooai-job-fair-spring-2025

WISE is pleased to announce a virtual WISE Public Lecture with Dr. Niall Conroy. Please join us on Zoom to discuss the remarkable transformation of newborn care at Bo Government Hospital in Sierra Leone’s second-largest city. In 2013, when Niall first arrived in-country, the hospital’s children’s ward was seeing only around 10 newborns a month—despite handling 5,000 deliveries per year in a country with one of the highest neonatal mortality rates in the world. Limited services and poor outcomes led many parents and healthcare workers to believe that seeking care for sick babies was futile; most newborns died either at home or in the labour ward. Over the past decade, the hospital’s special care baby unit has been transformed. This talk will share the story of that evolution and explore how sustainable energy solutions played a key role in building a trusted, life-saving service for the community.

Join us for the launch of the CareNext Collective, a new innovation forum that brings together partners across the Waterloo Regional Health Network, the University of Waterloo, and the broader regional ecosystem. Hear from Danina Kapetanovic, Dr. Catharine Burns, and Dr. Zayna Khayat as they discuss innovation in health care, research and system transformation. 

The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is proud to present the Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award Lecture featuring 2024 recipient, Dr. Ana Maria Munar.

The award recognizes international career contributions to the study of leisure, broadly defined, and influence on leisure scholarship at the University of Waterloo. The award is named in honour of retired faculty members Sue Shaw and Roger Mannell to recognize their outstanding individual career achievements.

This presentation explores how social capital can be harnessed to support place transformation. Despite its recognized importance, social capital remains poorly understood due to fragmented definitions and theories. By framing it as a form of capital, this talk presents a unified framework that clarifies how elements like trust, networks, and norms enable collective action

Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times With Homeboy Industries as a backdrop, this talk will explore the power of love to transform the disunity that currently keeps us from each other. Loving is our home and knowing that, is to never be homesick again.

Join us for an engaging discussion with Tess Chakkalakal, author of A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, as she speaks with moderator Dr. Vay.

Divided postwar Berlin was home to people of different non-binary genders. They found or made spaces for living dignified lives, even in the deeply queerphobic societies of Cold War Germany. In her talk, Andrea Rottmann will introduce us to some of them and to the pleasures and problems of writing their histories.